unit planning

This past week was a very busy one. Unit planning for the upcoming year had to be done. Unit planning had alot of particulars that i had not seen. As i sat down next to the other teachers, they were all ladies. In my case, it was actually kinda of amusing because it seems that not alot of men become spanish teachers. These ladies helped me alot during this week to understand and grasp the concept on how to be organized ahead of time.

As we sat down to see what had to be done, the first step was to set up a timeline for every unit. These units had to be taught around 6-8 weeks, each unit. Now with this set, each unit had to be created. The creation of the unit had a computer template offered by the school district for each teacher to follow. These templates included: what goals should the teacher accomplish at the end of each unit. What goals should be accomplished by the students. What modifications are going to be done in case of a special ed student being present? What Bloom's taxonomy vocabulary is going to be measured by the teacher?

This eperience was extremely useful as a student teacher. It refreshed my memory on bloom's taxonomy and how it shud be used efficiently in a class. But, what i really got out of this experience was how to apply the core curriculum standards to a unit and how to make your units work with another academic discipline.